The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.